Color as movement, structure as expression

The painting "Rare Bird" (Oil on canvas, 20x20 cm, 2025) is a composition of intense color contrasts and tactile structures, where the motif unfolds not through lines, but through color and materiality. Bright yellow, rich green, deep blue, and delicate shades of violet form a vibrant, almost sculptural representation.

Instead of a direct depiction, the bird emerges through the tension between soft color gradients and dynamic, impasto accents. The colors flow, meet, overlap – they move like the motif itself, between recognizability and free form.

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The Visible Painting Process – Art in Motion

A special element of this work is the visible artist's palette, which is directly integrated into the composition. The impasto, relief-like color areas remind us that painting is a process – a constant engagement with form, material, and movement.

Through the deliberately applied layers of paint and spatula marks, a three-dimensional effect is created that makes the bird almost tangible. The dialogue between surface and structure generates an image depth that changes depending on the light.

Between Figuration and Abstraction

Like many works in this series, "Rare Bird VIII" moves along the boundary between representational depiction and pure color composition. The color explosion does not allow the motif to remain in static repose but suggests movement, change, energy.

The bird seems to emerge from the color itself – a brief moment of appearance that could dissolve at any time.

An Artwork for the Senses

This work challenges the viewer's gaze – it cannot be reduced to a single interpretation, but invites one to explore the surface, feel the rhythm of the colors, and embrace the moment of creation.

Here, color is not just a means of representation but becomes an expression itself – sometimes flowing gently, sometimes applied boldly, always in dialogue with the light.